This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein, 2014. This is an important call to action, Klein, the syndicated columnist and author of The ShockDoctrine and No Logo points to climate change as both an imperative for rethinking how we live and an opportunity for reforming social and economic inequalities. A habitable Earth demands reducing greenhouse gases, and such reductions, in turn, will help create new kinds of communities.

Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilization by Stephen Leahy | 11 January 2013. The article on the Ehrlich's peer-reviewed article “Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?” is adding to the recognition that the separation between science and political leadership doesn't serve the people.

The Most Stressful Science Problem by Caren Cooper | January 10, 2013. Trying to figure out why science doesn't help us survive our suicidal societies, this paper argues for a merger of citizen and professionals, but naively ignores why corporate/government maintains the separation of powers to keep public policy from implementing democratic rule.

As
we enter 2008 a strong editorial from the New York Times!"Looking
at America," THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 31, 2007. "There
are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our
country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The
Times of how men in some
of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of
prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes
of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles
of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed
for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency..."

'A
Coup Has Occurred'By Daniel Ellsberg,
September 26, 2007 (Text of a speech delivered September 20, 2007) consortiumnews.com
Editor’s Note: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department
analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam
War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss
of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium
on Sept. 20.

Fidel
on Food and Ethanol "More than three billion people
in the world are being condemned to a premature death from hunger
and thirst," March 28, 2007. Fidel
Castro analyzes the dangers of ethanol and other policies that
endanger the people of the world. (On
this site)

Olbermann:
Rumsfeld is a fascist By
David DeGraw Posted on August 31, 2006, printed on September
4, 2006.In a time when non-stop JonBenet Ramsey coverage
passes as TV "journalism," we should all be thankful
that there are still a few real journalists on TV.Responding to Donald Rumsfeld's recent speech on
America facing a new form of "fascism," Keith Olbermann
delivered this critical commentary and proved that he is, indeed,
one of the rare hero journalists." (On
this site)

I
Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture
by Ray McGovern - t r
u t h o u t Thursday
02 March 2006 Ray McGovern a 27-year veteran of the CIA, and 15 others
took action today in the halls of Congress. The 16 donned orange jumpsuit's
similar to those
worn by detainees at Guantánamo
Bay. They wore gags over their mouths decorated with one word - torture. Not
another word needed to be said as they walked the halls of Congress. McGovern
also returned his Intelligence Commendation Award
medallion which was given to him for "especially commendable service." He
delivered the medal to Congressman Pete Hoekstra along with the letter.

Hypocrites
and Liars By Cindy Sheehan
t r u t h o u t , Aug. 20, 2005 "The media are
wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press
and events
with me are not putting words
in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth." Cindy Sheehan.

The
Downing Street Memo - and new Memos
coming out - make up the "smoking gun" minutes
of the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23,
2002— eight months PRIOR to the invasion
of Iraq on March 20, 2003, proving the British and US governments
faked the evidence to fit the invasion policy. Printed by the Times
on May 1, 2005, but fearfully avoided by most US media
as
of May
23. Memos
and more on this siteand many more on Think
Progressiveand also check
outWikiNewson
the memos.

Public
Power in the Age of Empire Arundhati
Roy's speaking on war, resistance and the Presidency to an
overflow crowd at the American Sociological Association in San
Francisco on August 16th, 2004. ( Her speech text/audio/web video
is available on Democracy
Now.)